Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content

Good. I don&#x27;t know the details of this case, but they don&#x27;t even matter.<p>Whether it&#x27;s Facebook nuking all your Oculus Quest content because you were at a pro-democracy Hong Kong protest, or Apple remotely deleting all your music and apps because their fuzzy-logic automation incorrectly correlated the pattern of your network traffic with illegal activity, there has to be some recourse — and in the US, that recourse should obviously be the courts.

It&#x27;s so weird to see them cling to these fuck-the-customer rules. Like it&#x27;s so shortsighted. They only see the money they save, but completely forget about how many transactions and purchases just don&#x27;t happen, because people are scared of getting screwed over.<p>(Edited to add). So I think that Apple could actually benefit here by losing this suit. It needs to be in court. Such a foundation is more solid than a gesture of goodwill that could be go the other way tomorrow.

I wonder if anyone else tried to sue a Big Corp. for terminating their account and everything associated with it. I am thinking about other threads here on HN about YouTube terminating someone&#x27;s channel and then also their associated Gmail account, incl. Google Drive.<p>It&#x27;s scary to think that if you do something wrong (willingly or unwillingly) you could lose EVERYTHING tied to that account.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what nightmare it might be to try to reset your other accounts such as bills, banking, gov accounts tied to your Gmail. On top of everything else you might have tied to it, email and file wise.<p>Backup on cloud, backup on hardware, mirror the backups!

Many years ago I spent a few years working at Comcast<p>One of the more bizarre things I learned is they were somehow one of the most reasonable players as far as &quot;digital content&quot; went<p>If you purchased (not rented) a movie through your cable box, but then left Comcast as a customer. You would be sent your entire library of purchases on either DVD or Blu Ray (for SD and HD respectively) at no charge

This is precisely the reason I never buy DRM-laded content.

I sincerely hope he wins. I am not even sure how would this be legal.

I don&#x27;t have a strong feeling on the banning of the account. I know companies typically can&#x27;t comment for legal reasons, but there may be good reasons for this, sometimes there may not be.<p>The problem is that people invest in these accounts. They buy the right to some content and that is taken away from them. In some cases they also invest socially in the account, like an email address.<p>I don&#x27;t think companies can have it both ways. They can either not ban accounts like this, or they can ban accounts and refund any purchased licences, and provide the ability to transfer data out and set up redirections as necessary (an auto-responder for email perhaps?).

This is unsettling if you’re locked into the Apple ID ecosystem does anyone know if you lose all your iCloud backups and photos if your Apple ID is terminated?

I hope he wins for the precedent. It&#x27;s a borderline scam that Apple can sell you something and then change or take that purchase away later.